Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: La Corée du Nord – AFP

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: La Corée du Nord – AFP | Le Journal de la Photographie North Korea, one of the world’s most secretive countries, invited hundreds of foreign journalists to witness celebrations in April to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of leader Kim Il-Sung, and the launch of a rocket considered…

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: La Grèce – AFP

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: La Grèce – AFP | Le Journal de la Photographie Louisa Gouliamaki, Angelos Tzortzinis and Aris Messinis, Greek photographers in the Athens bureau, worked in relay, providing daily coverage of politics and social unrest in the country

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: Massoud Hossaini

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Massoud Hossaini | Le Journal de la Photographie Massoud, a thirty year-old Afghan photographer, has been reporting on war and developments in his country since 2007. He regularly goes on assignment with foreign troops (American, French and others), and travels to remote villages to show what the war on terror…

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: Robin Hammond

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Robin Hammond | Le Journal de la Photographie “We are working in the most dangerous place in the world, Mogadishu!” shouts Dr Habeb who runs the only mental health clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia

  • Dave Jordano Photographs a Gritty but Hopeful Detroit

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    Link: Dave Jordano Photographs a Gritty but Hopeful Detroit | Feature Shoot I’m of the philosophy that you don’t pick your projects, they pick you. If you’re concerned enough about something it will ultimately surface and you will have to act upon it.

  • Joseph Michael Lopez’s “Dear New Yorker”

    Joseph Michael Lopez’s “Dear New Yorker”

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    Breaking Down the Beast Joseph Michael Lopez’s New York street photography shows the city as a beast of chaos that New Yorkers attempt to contain, or at least live with, on a daily basis. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/breaking-down-the-beast/ Joseph Michael Lopez’s photography is fundamentally about his New York. He presents street scenes, people and everyday…

  • Rémi Ochlik’s Revolutions

    Rémi Ochlik’s Revolutions

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/05/remi-ochlik-revolutions/#1 This spring, after French war photographer Rémi Ochlik was killed during fighting in Homs, Syria, a group of close friends and colleagues felt their obligations to the photographer weren’t complete. Meeting aboard a TGV train on their way to Paris from…

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: Krisanne Johnson

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Krisanne Johnson | Le Journal de la Photographie Swaziland, a kingdom with a population a little over a million and surrounded almost entirely by South Africa, is largely ignored by the media. It has drawn the attention of a few international organization due to the ravages of AIDS. The phenomenon…

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: Damir Sagolj

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Damir Sagolj | Le Journal de la Photographie In October 2011, Bangkok based Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj travelled with Alertnet – the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s humanitarian news service –  and Medecins Sans Frontieres on a government requested and tightly controlled trip to North Korea

  • Visa pour l’image 2012 : Lorenzo Meloni

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012 : Lorenzo Meloni | Le Journal de la Photographie These images are part of a project I started called ‘fair, love and war’. It focuses on the young people of my generation living in the suburbs, who use rap music as a status symbol and a way to let off…

  • The Sweet Life: Revisited

    The Sweet Life: Revisited

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/04/the-sweet-life-revisited/#1 In photography, “the road trip,” especially by car around the United States, has been a right of passage for many photographers. Embarking on a fourteen-month world tour however is a bit less common, but that ambitious challenge was taken on in…

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: Jim Lo Scalzo

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Jim Lo Scalzo | Le Journal de la Photographie Seeking God, spreading hatred and racism, and destroying the American landscape. These American States, as they are sometimes called, are individual and, at times, as violently divided as the people who live in them. Whose America is it? Jim Lo Scalzo…

  • Visa pour l’image 2012 : Gali Tibbon

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012 : Gali Tibbon | Le Journal de la Photographie Ethiopian faith radiates from two cities: Jerusalem and Lalibela, in Ethiopia’s highlands. ‘Jerusalem of Africa’ is one of the names given to Lalibela, also known as ‘Black Jerusalem’. It is famous for its 12th century monolithic churches carved out of the…

  • Noor’s 5th Anniversary at Perpignan

    Noor’s 5th Anniversary at Perpignan

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    A Collective Eye on Social Justice Members of Noor, the photo collective that will observe its fifth anniversary at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, discuss their approach and practice. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/a-collective-eye-on-social-justice/ The photographer-owned photo agency, Noor, was started on Sept. 6, 2007, at the Visa Pour l’image photojournalism festival…

  • alejandro olivares – living periferia

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    Alejandro Olivares – Living Periferia Alejandro Olivares Living Periferia ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT How many times can a person face death in their lives? Sense it. Feel it. Smell it. Maybe once? Twice? Four times? The people cap… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/08/alejandro-olivares-living-periferia/ The people captured in “Living Periferia” live with it every day of their…

  • Arthur Meyerson: Light, Color And The Moment

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    Link: Arthur Meyerson: Light, Color And The Moment « The Leica Camera Acclaimed as one of America’s finest photographers, Arthur Meyerson is a native of Texas who has traveled the world creating award-winning advertising, corporate and editorial photographs as well as an impressive body of personal fine art street images

  • Composite Then and Now Photos of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

    Composite Then and Now Photos of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

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    Composite Then and Now Photos of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Since 2010, San Francisco photographer Shawn Clover has been working on a striking series of then and now composite photos of the 1906 San Francisco via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/composite-then-and-now-photos-of-the-1906-san-francisco-earthquake/ Since 2010, San Francisco photographer Shawn Clover has been working on a striking series of…

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: Doug Menuez

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Doug Menuez | Le Journal de la Photographie Some stories, like relationships, last longer than others. Twenty-seven years ago I began a story that I worked on for fifteen years and then put away, thinking it was over. Now I’m thrilled to find my project about Steve Jobs and the…

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: Bénédicte Kurzen

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Bénédicte Kurzen | Le Journal de la Photographie Every day northern Nigeria descends into ever greater chaos and civil war, despite the state of emergency. Since 2009, Boko Haram, a Salafist sect, has been carrying out a series of murderous attacks targeting security services, police and armed forces

  • Photographing the RNC Through the Eyes of a Newcomer

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    Photographing the RNC Through the Eyes of a Newcomer Tristan Spinski has been covering the Republican National Convention for his newly formed GRAIN collective along with co-founders Lexey Swall and Greg Kahn. This is his report of what it’s like to cover a huge national event with fierce competition from o via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/grain-collective-rnc/ Guest…